Biography
Benjamin John "Ben" Whishaw (born 14 October 1980) is an English actor who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Whishaw is best known for his breakthrough role as Hamlet, his roles in the television series Nathan Barley, Criminal Justice, The Hour and London Spy; and film roles including Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), I'm Not There (2007), Bright Star (2009), Brideshead Revisited (2008), Cloud Atlas (2012), The Lobster (2015) and Suffragette (2015). He has also played the role...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Peter Hujar's Day
2025
as Peter Hujar
A recently discovered conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda Rosenkrantz in 1974 reveals a glimpse into New York City’s do...

Paddington in Peru
2024
as Paddington Brown (voice)
Paddington travels to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling ad...

An A to Z of Paddington
2024
as Self
Dive deep into the lore and influence of Paddington in this feel-good documentary composed of beautiful illustrations and interviews with famous fans.

Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing
2024
as Narrator
Follows the life of Alan Turing and roughly 49,000 other men who were convicted and imprisoned for the "crime" of gross indecency.

In Heat
2024
A recovering sex addict sits on the edge of a beach car park, looking to cruise, while talking on an addiction helpline – with a husband patiently wai...

Limonov: The Ballad
2024
as Eduard 'Eddie' Limonov
A revolutionary militant, a thug, an underground writer, a butler to a millionaire in Manhattan. But also a switchblade-waving poet, a lover of beauti...

Bad Behaviour
2023
as Elon Bello
Lucy, a former child actor, seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon while she navigates her close yet turbulent relationship wit...

Bad Behaviour
2023
Executive Producer
Lucy, a former child actor, seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon while she navigates her close yet turbulent relationship wit...

Passages
2023
as Martin
Tomas and Martin are a gay couple living in Paris whose marriage is thrown into crisis when Tomas impulsively begins a passionate affair with young sc...

Good Boy
2023
as Danny
Out of money and out of luck, Danny is determined to turn his life around, but the interventions of his anarchic mum and the reappearance of figures f...

Women Talking
2022
as August
A group of women in an isolated religious colony struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.

Ungentle
2022
as Narrator (voice)
A film exploring the complicated relationship between British espionage and male homosexuality.

Paddington Meets The Queen
2022
as Paddington (voice)
Paddington learns that The Queen also loves marmalade sandwiches. He shows Her Majesty where he hides his sandwiches, and The Queen also shows where s...
Designing Bond
2021
as Self
Production designer Mark Tildesley and costume designer Suttirat Anne Larlarb, along with cast and other filmmakers, discuss the inspiration, challeng...

No Time to Die
2021
as Q
Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns ...

Being James Bond
2021
as Q (archive footage)
Daniel Craig candidly reflects on his 15 year adventure as James Bond. Including never-before-seen archival footage from Casino Royale to the upcoming...

Miss Fortunate
2021
as Humourless Man
If luck is a lady, grief is a bitch. A young woman loses her mother and finds herself.

Surge
2020
as Joseph
A man goes on a bold and reckless journey of self-liberation through London. After he robs a bank he releases a wilder version of himself, ultimately ...

The Personal History of David Copperfield
2019
as Uriah Heep
A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chron...

Little Joe
2019
as Chris
Alice, a single mother who is more dedicated to her work as a genetic engineer than to her teenage son Joe, develops a new variety of flower that is s...

O Holy Ghost
2019
as Charmaine
A mixture of rapture and disenchantment, O HOLY GHOST follows the inner experiences of two believers at opposite ends of the spiritual spectrum.

Mary Poppins Returns
2018
as Michael Banks
Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.

Palo Santo
2018
as Palo Santo Hologram
Palo Santo, a city on a distant planet, on which human beings are a rare commodity, worshipped and idolized by an android society. Olly, along with th...

National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar
2018
as Marcus Brutus
Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspi...

His Picture In Little
2018
A portrait of three actors of different generations who have all portrayed Hamlet: David Warner, Stephen Dillane and Ben Whishaw.

Paddington 2
2017
as Paddington Brown (voice)
Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.

Family Happiness
2017
as The Brother
A story about small cruelties, adult bullying, and the power of a brothers unconditional love for his complex little sister.

A Hologram for the King
2016
as Dave
Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Ea...

In the Heart of the Sea
2015
as Herman Melville
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almo...

The Danish Girl
2015
as Henrik
When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as L...

Spectre
2015
as Q
A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret servic...

Suffragette
2015
as Sonny Watts
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and m...

The Lobster
2015
as Limping Man
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partne...

Unity
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one anothe...

Paddington
2014
as Paddington (voice)
A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, w...

Days and Nights
2014
as Eric
Reckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragile nature of love. A modern retelling of Anton Chek...

Lilting
2014
as Richard
A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, ...

The Muse
2014
as Edward
Legend has it that if a human man falls in love with a mermaid she will grow legs; legs that will, if she so desires, carry her far, far away from the...

Beat
2013
as Man
A film about a man walking a paper-thin line between hopelessness and euphoria, testing and pushing the boundaries of conventions and impulse.

The Zero Theorem
2013
as Doctor 3
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they s...

Teenage
2013
as British Boy (voice)
Teenagers did not exist before the 20th century. Not until the early 1950s did the term gain widespread recognition, but "Teenage" offers compelling e...

Cloud Atlas
2012
as Cabin Boy / Robert Frobisher / Store Clerk / Georgette / Tribesman
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and con...

Skyfall
2012
as Q
When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to he...

The Tempest
2010
as Ariel
An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare's Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been ban...

Bright Star
2009
as John Keats
In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her f...

Love Hate
2009
as Tom
A sweet-natured charity worker finds his life turned upside down, when he falls in love with a mysterious woman.

Brideshead Revisited
2008
as Sebastian Flyte
Artist Charles Ryder runs into aristocrat Julia Flyte and recalls his friendship with her eccentric family prior to the outbreak of the Second World W...

I'm Not There
2007
as Arthur
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger...

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006
as Jean-Baptiste Grenouille
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest pe...

Stoned
2005
as Keith Richards
A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks a...

Enduring Love
2004
as Spud
Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a...

Layer Cake
2004
as Sidney
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime an...

Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
2004
as Bruno
Remake of the 1976 TV drama by Jack Rosenthal. An extra in a TV drama is finally given a line to say. He goes on to cause mounting chaos

77 Beds
2003
as Ishmael
One sleepless night Ishmael, a young spacey urban nomad, starts counting back through all the beds he has ever slept in.

The Booze Cruise
2003
as Daniel
A group of men from Kent; Clive (Martin Clunes), Rob (Neil Pearson), Dave (Mark Benton), Maurice (Brian Murphy) and Daniel (Ben Whishaw) - go on a boo...
Spiritual Rampage
2003
as Eric
Two boys go to a park to look for girls. Unusually, one of them is doing it for Lord Krishna.

My Brother Tom
2001
as Tom
A teenage girl, Jessica, befriends a teenage boy called Tom, who is bullied by a local gang. She is abused by Jack, who is both her neighbour and scho...

Baby
2000
as Little Joe
A teenage boy finds all around him has sexual overtones as he lives a teenage life of drugs and masturbation.

The Escort
1999
as Jay
Fleeing from his wife in France to London, 45-year-old Pierre is barely able to support himself. He meets friendly Tom, who offers to help him make en...

The Trench
1999
as Pte. James Deamis
The Trench tells the story of a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916, the worst defeat in Briti...
All Signs of Death
N/A
as Web
Centers on an inveterate twenty-something slacker who stumbles into a career as a crime scene cleaner, only to find himself entangled with a murder my...

Paddington 4
N/A
as Paddington Brown (voice)
Plot TBA. The fourth installment in the Paddington series.
Diamond Shitter
N/A
as Nigel
In Geneva's wealthy international circles, privileged expatriates navigate their luxurious lives while dealing with personal dramas and hidden secrets...
The Man I Love
N/A